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Crookland was erected in 1854 in Middlefork Village, Henderson County, Tennessee, by Judge John Crook. It remains a family home and is a center for archiving Crook family materials for two of the major Crook families. Family Crook J originated in England and moved to VA,SC,TN,MS,AL,TX and beyond. Family Group L originated in Scotland and moved to NC,KY,TN,TX and beyond. We are descended from both lines and are part of the land grant settlement of Henderson Co. TN in 1821.
Crookland became the seat of a large cotton seed business program beginning in 1909 with the sale of Crook's Prolific White Giant Seed Corn for the Crook Bros Store in Middlefork, Tn. Later Crook's Half & Half Hi-Bred Cotton was added when Prof. W. C. Crook originated the variety in 1916. In 1928, Crook Bros sold more cottonseed than anyother business in the US and by the 1950's had sold seed as far away as the British Honduras. 1916 also saw the birth of the successor company, W.C. & R.L. Crook Seed Company, which sold their Half & Half cotton seed, and later Empire and Delta Pine seeds until closure in 1959. T.J. Crook & Sons and Crook De-Linting Company survived until 1972 when the family suffered a number of deaths in traffic accidents.
Crookland archives many of the old seed business records, seed sacks, photos and advertisements for the Crook's Half & Half Cotton, and the Prolific White Giant Seed Corn. Advertisements for the Corn can be found in the Progressive Farmer as late as 1948.
CHESTER COUNTY CEMETERY BOOKS, LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE. WRITE LOY JONES, P.O. BOX 5, JACKS CREEK, TN 38347 OR CALL 731-989-4353. The cemetery book also includes key cemeteries in the Middlefork area such as Middlefork, Old Jacks Creek, Unity, Old Frame Meeting House, Hodges, Collins, Jones/Rhodes, Hurt, and Hamlett.
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W. Clay Crook
Crookland, Middlefork Village
1990 Hwy 22A
Luray, TN 38352
United States
731-968-9267
crookland@hughes.net
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- The Children of Wiley M. Crook, J Line (60 KB)
This is a family group portrait of the children of Wiley Mitchum Crook, a son of James W. Crook, the son of Jonathan Crook, J-Line
- Crook Plot - Woodruff SC (63 KB)
This is where James Crook, the Rev. War ancestor of the J Line is buried.
- Willis Arnold Crook and Phineas Crook - J Line (59 KB)
These are Jonathan Crook descendants
- James Crook 1746-1825 J Line (55 KB)
This is James Crook, the Rev. War ancestor of the J Line buried at Woodruff SC
- Jonathan and Lucy Arnold Crook - J Line (71 KB)
Jonathan was a brother to Jeremiah Crook and Lucy was a sister to Jeremiah's wife Mary Polly Arnold. This photograph is from the Hopper Cemetery in Tippah County, MS, east of Faulkner.
- Crookland Hall 1863- 1973 (100 KB)
Different photographs of Crookland Hall in Middlefork Village from 1863 to it's later abandonment.
- Jonathan Crook decendants' markers - J Line (57 KB)
This is from the Old Frame Meeting House Cemetery in Chester (formerly Henderson County) on the Lavaughn Grissom farm, Luray Post Office Route, between Jacks Creek and Middlefork. This was a former site of Clarks Creek Primitive Baptist Church.
- Crookland 1997 (24 KB)
Crookland Hall after the restoration in 1997.
- Cemetery Map - Chester & Henderson County TN (49 KB)
This will give you some idea of how close the dozen or so family cemeteries are in the Jacks Creek, Middlefork, Mifflin, and Clarks Creek area.
- Crookland Hall 1940's - 50's (88 KB)
This was after the 1940 restoration of Crookland Hall by Prof. W.C.Crook, a greatgrandson of Judge John Crook.
- General George Crook (72 KB)
Many branches of the family claim relationship to the Ohio native. This Civil War photo shows a resemblence to Crook families in Va, SC, TN, etc. Gen. Crook was more well known for his campains during the Indians Wars, once capturing Geronimo.
- Crookland Hall - The 1940 Restoration Portrait (124 KB)
Prof. W. C. Crook arranged this portrait after the 1940 restoration of Crookland. Erected in 1854, the structure was restored in 1916, 1940, and 1997.
- Jeremiah and Polly Arnold Crook (78 KB)
Jeremiah Crook 1792-1865, the son of James Crook of SC, married Mary Polly Arnold. They moved to Henderson County in the 1820's. Also pictured is the old Crook home in SC as it appeared in the 1960's and 1960's photo's of the Crook plot in SC. Also Jeremiah Crook's monument at the Hurt Cemetery in Chester Co, formerly Henderson County TN.
- Sons of Jeremiah Crook (96 KB)
Marker for Dr. Jonathan Wiley Crook, a drawing of the Jeremiah Crook log home in Henderson Co. ca 1836, the marker for Williams Mitchum Crook, Dr. William Jere Crook, Major 13th TN Inf. CSA, Capt. Alfred Barry Crook who led the rebel raid on Henderson, and Dr. Joseph Alexander Crook.
- Dr. J.A. Crook Family (94 KB)
Dr. Joseph Alexander Crook was the last child of Jeremiah and Mary Polly Arnold Crook. He married Martha Cawthon. They had four daughters, Allie, Dru, Patty, and Celeste, and a son, Dr. Jere L. Crook of Jackson, TN. Not pictured are Dr. Jere Crook's sons, Dr. William G. Crook of Jackson TN, author of the Yeast Connection, and Dr. Angus McDonald Greene Crook of Nashville, TN. Their mother was Millian Greene Crook, a long time member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Jackson, TN.
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- Descendents of John Crook (424 KB)
The John Crook family of Middlefork and Jacks Creek, Henderson and Chester Co. Tn. John was born in 1776 in NC.
- Descendents of Jonathon Crook (333 KB)
These are the descendents of Jonathon Crook and Lucy Arnold
- Desc. of Jeremiah Crook (306 KB)
These are the descendents of Jeremiah Crook and Mary Polly Arnold
- Desc. of Henry Clay Crook (192 KB)
Henry Clay Crook was born into slavery in 1848 on the Thomas Crook Plantation of Henderson County TN. His mother was an Indian slave. He has been reported by various sources as either the son of Thomas Greer Crook, or his brother, Jacob M. Crook
- Hanging of Jacob Crook and Elijah Matthews, 1863 (12 KB)
The Crook and Matthew's hollow in Middlefork is a famous ghost story in the area, from the Civil War
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- John Crook 1776-1856 Family Group L of NC,TN, & TX
- The Goff family of Henderson County, my mother's line.
- The Crook Forum page
- Kee/Key Site. Wm C. Crook married Virgie Kee, 1906
- Unity Baptist Church 1904-1918
- The Hamlet-Smith House- a farm from John Crook to Liza Smith
- Middlefork Village, Henderson County, Tennessee
- Middlefork Village - Present Day
- Middlefork, A Forgotten Community - a history
- Wiley Crook's Biography, 1917. This is the J Line
- Hurst! - One of my Civil War articles
- Barham webpage- this is a related Henderson Co. TN family
- A Trice and Crook family link
- The Murder of John H. Trice, 1860
- Henderson County, Yesterday
- Chester County, Yesterday
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